Are we supposed to feel better that the figure isn’t any higher? (Think Progress): According to the poll, a combined 58% said the decade was either “awful” or “not so good,” 29% said it was fair, and just 12% said it was either “good” ...

Matt makes a useful point about how anyone who threatens to block health care reform over abortion is a lot of things, but “pro-life” ain’t one of them: That said, it really is worth lingering on the extent to which his threat...

If I were on trial for robbing a house, the last thing in the world I would do is give a series of public lectures on cat burglary techniques. “I’m completely innocent,” I’d say, as the sample lock clicked open....

I happened to post a link to an article in the News & Observer today, “N.C. to impose ‘fat tax’“, on my Facebook page and I couldn’t believe how many comments were generated there, opening up a somewhat heated...

Update: This should clear up some confusion about the potential of a bill to ruin lives. Some folks in comments below are, apparently without reading the post, reciting lines about the perfect being the enemy of the good and ideological tests....

The entire problem with rescissions in health insurance is that they create the entire problem they were enacted to combat. The only reason they exist is to be violated, like overdraft fees or virginity pledges or the return policy at Best Buy....

So it must be time for the Wall Street Journal to propose a health insurance reform that would save insurance companies money. It’s refreshing when you wake up knowing exactly what’s going to happen. Today’s idea is that we...

I may be a lowly law student, but I’m pretty sure that David Rivkin and Lee Casey are flat-out wrong when they say that a federal mandate for health insurance would be unconstitutional. I think that it’s terrible policy, personally,...

Suppose I told you that Trig Palin was akin to a pipe. No matter how you try to patch him up, he was manufactured with a crippling defect that’s always going to leave him unable to function properly. Like that pipe, the best solution is to...

This is just a small, nagging thing that’s been bothering me about the healthcare debate. Politics 101 says that when you’re discussing something, you use actual stories to stress the importance of the position. It’s why McCain...

The CEO of Whole Foods has a plan to reform health care. Not by increasing communist-style government control of healthcare OMGWTFBBQ, but instead by taking simple, common sense steps. Mainly, having every retailer on Earth become Whole Foods....

I’m pretty sure that when the history of health care reform in America is written, Megan McArdle will get a footnote as the last person in the country to understand how any of it actually works. The debate over the “rationing”...

Today is my birthday. And as such, I reserve the birthday right to make bold pronouncements about my life. Today, as I turn 27 years old, I say unto the world that I am not a motherfucking car. Robert Tracinski, writing at Real Clear Politics,...

Thomas Sowell writes, in the clarion voice for personal liberty we’ve all come to know and use to justify wearing body armor over our kidneys, that universal health insurance is the enemy of freedom. This is mainly because we live in a...